Not everyone who files for bankruptcy or gets into a financial mess, does so because they live high on the hog and live recklessly. Such presumption! People lose their jobs (look at the Detroit motor companies, Enron, etc.)......health problems or accidents can arise.....and the investment market can move against you.....or you make a bad investment decision.This is why God provided for a Jubilee under the law.....how much more under the age of "Grace". The laws of this country were founded on Old Testament Laws.....including the concept of a Jubilee or Bankruptcy.The rain comes down on the just and the unjust.......stuff happens. Even Christians get killed or permanently disabled in auto accidents.....yes even when they tithe.....stuff happens.Mat 5:45: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.Anyone remember Job? God called him 'perfect', 'upright', 'feareth God' and abhors evil...yet look at how GOD tested Job! His vibrant good health was taken from him.....and so were all of his assets.....even his children were taken from him. Job's "friends" assumed Job must have committed some terrible sin......but God said that he hadn't.
Job 1:8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that [there is] none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? Mat 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
Mat 7:2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.A. What kind of spirit seeks to condemn?1. Self righteous spirit, feeling of superiority, a better than thou.B. Look at I Cor. 13, it is an opposite spirit to this.1. Thinks no evil.2. Hopes all things, believes all things.C. The judgment forbidden is that which condemns not so much what the person has done or said, but the person himself.II. IN WHAT WAYS ARE WE FORBIDDEN TO JUDGE?A. Should not judge presumptuously.1. Treat rumors as facts.2. Judging motives of others.a. Satan concerning Job.B. Hypocritically.1. Finding minor flaws in others while ignoring major flaws in ourselves.2. Romans 2:1, "Thou art inexcusable..."3. David judging Nathan's man.C. Hastily or rashly.1. Best to first attain all the facts.2. John 7:24, "Judge not according to appearance."3. Many have been destroyed through this type of judgment.D. Unwarrantably.1. In some things the scriptures are silent.2. Romans, Paul speaks about judging in meat or drink.3. Man has established certain rules that prohibit what God has not prohibited.E. Judge not unfairly.1. This often happens from prejudice.a. I do not consider all the facts.2. I have already formed by conclusions, thus ignore certain evidence or pass it off.F. Judge not unmercifully.
Mat 5:7 Blessed [are] the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
1Cr 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become [as] sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1Cr 13:2 And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. 1Cr 13:3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 1Cr 13:4 Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 1Cr 13:5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 1Cr 13:6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 1Cr 13:7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 1Cr 13:8 Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away. 1Cr 13:9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. 1Cr 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. 1Cr 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 1Cr 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. 1Cr 13:13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these [is] charity.
Maranatha!
Deborah
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